Improvement in meddles for looms



C. I. KANE.

HEDDLES FOR LOOMS. No. 179,567. Patented July-4,187.6.

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STATES PATENT QEEroE.

CHARLES I. KANE, OF MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO NEW YORK SILKMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HEDDLES FOR LOOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,567, dated July 4,1876; application filed May 20, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES I. KANE, of Milford, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, havev invented an Improvement in Heddlesfor Looms, of which the following is a specification:

This invention more particularly relates to the heddles of ribbon andother narrow-ware looms running at a high velocity. Wire heddles, onaccount of their durability, and the little space they occupy, aregreatly superior to any other for such looms. A difficulty, however, hasbeenexperienced as regards the eyes of such heddles. Thus, when madewith a needle-eye, they are stiff and clumsy and difficult to thread up.It has been customary, therefore, to form the eye by twisting parallellengths of wire so as to leave an eye between the twisted portions. Aneye thus made, however, leaves such a sharp angle or groove in its endthat when the same litts or acts on the fine silk or yarn, the lattercatches in or is out by the eye.

This invention consists in a wire heddle having its eye formed byknotting, thereby giving a good lifting or acting surface for the eye,free from the objections incidental to an eye formed by twisting thewire.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal view ofa wire heddle constructed in accordance with my improvement, and Fig. 2a similar view, on a larger scale, of the eye portion thereof.

The heddle is represented as composed of two wires, 1) and I), whichare'doubled, and the lower of which is tied in a half-knot, as shown atc, to form the eye (1 with a nearly straight bottom, which presents abroad surface to the warp, and thereby not only prevents the chafing ofthe yarn by the sides of the eye, but avoids the tendency of the warp towear the eye always on one point. It is immaterial, however, whether theheddle be composed of two wires, or of a single wire, and whether theknot be formed only at the bottom of the eye, or both at the bottom andtop, the distinguishing characteristics of my invention being the knottied to present a broad bearing for the yarn.- It may be remarked thatsuch a broad bearing cannot be obtained by twisting the wires together,as heretofore practiced in making wire heddlcs, nor yet by tying orknotting the thread in a thread-heddle, the thread of which the latteris made being too flexible to enable the eye to be retained in suchshape.

I claim- A wire heddle having its eyes formed with a half-knot,presenting a broad bearing-surface for the yarn, and otherwiseconstructed as herein described.

' CHARLES I. KANE.

